Many Happy Miles: Emily Halnon Goes to the Gorge

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This episode shares the moving story of Emily Halnon, a runner and writer based in Eugene, Oregon. Her debut memoir, To The Gorge, details her journey going for the Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the 460-mile Oregon Pacific Crest Trail in the wake of losing her mother, Andrea, to cancer in 2020. In this conversation, co-hosts Dimity and Sarah WF chat with Emily about: How Emily's mom inspired her to run her first marathon; Why running was the mother and daughter's "love language" and what that meant; Her reasons for attempting the Pacific Crest Trail FKT and what that journey entailed; How running continues to help her move through her grief, and more. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Here comes the sun: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses with code AMR20 at TifosiOptics.com Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on all IQBar products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to foci optics maker of my favorite sunglasses.
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0:29.0	Get 20% off all IQ bar products plus get free shipping. Just text AMR to 64,000. Welcome to Many Happy Miles, a podcast that celebrates all types of forward movement.
0:51.0	Whether it's some hardcore gardening this spring or running the of I'm Dimmity McDowell co-founder of another mother runner and I'm Sarah
1:04.9	Wessner Flynn and Dimmity today I'm saying yay to setting new goals.
1:09.8	Nice nice right off the back of Boston. What's your new goal?
1:13.7	So I'm going to dip my toes, no pun intended,
1:16.5	back into the triathlon world.
1:18.3	I've been inspired by the triathlon programs that we have here at AMR with Coach Liz and Coach Jen.
1:26.6	And it's just, you know, it's been a while, I think it's been two years since I've done a triathlon,
1:30.9	but I'm actually going to a triathlon camp to cover it for Triathlete magazine and I figure
1:36.4	if I'm going to go to the camp I better be in shape to participate in the camp if I'm in shape to
1:41.1	participate why not do a race so I am going to do a
1:45.1	triathlon this summer. Nice do you like is it going to be sprint or Olympic or
1:50.3	half Iron Man what do you think? Baby Step.
1:53.0	Or Iron Man. I mean, I guess I'll throw Iron Man in there too, just in case.
1:56.0	I joke with that Mark, my husband about Iron Man.
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